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When I try to minimize an application by clicking on its icon, it's minimizing all the windows of that application where I want only focused window to minimize.

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  • Hint: as per your other question you have installed the Dash to Dock extension which is causing this behaviour. Please always include all important details to avoid getting your question closed as unclear or having it remain unanswered. – pomsky Oct 05 '18 at 16:31
  • actuall i did install only few extension. dash to dock and hide the top bar. i don't think it's have any relation with this. i am using ubuntu 18.04 LTS. @pomsky – zellu rakib Oct 05 '18 at 16:39
  • And you're very likely wrong thinking there is no relation with this. Just because you have installed only a few extensions, doesn't mean they won't break things. As I told you before, Ubuntu Dock is fork of Dash to Dock; they share many gsettings keys. Of course they would almost certainly affect each other. – pomsky Oct 05 '18 at 16:46
  • @pomsky thanks for your quick reply. as you know ubuntu dock is a system exxtension. although dash to dock replace ubuntu dock. so should i uninstall ubuntu dock instead of disable this? – zellu rakib Oct 05 '18 at 17:11
  • Disabling Ubuntu Dock is not easy as you've rightly pointed out it's a system extension and I won't recommend removing it, as it also removes the ubuntu-desktop metapackage. You can do one thing, install but keep Dash to Dock deactivated using GNOME Tweaks or something. Most, if not all, of the configurations you set for Dash to Dock should also be respected by the system dock because of shared gsettings keys. – pomsky Oct 05 '18 at 17:16

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(By default, Ubuntu Dock is not configured to minimize on click. For interested readers, please find how you can enable this behaviour below.)

When you click on an app icon in Ubuntu Dock, which is configured to "minimize" if you click the icon, it would appear logical that the entire application is minimized by default. However, try pressing the Shift key while clicking an application icon. This will minimize only the most foremost window. Subsequent Shift+clicks will minimize the other windows one by one.

Having this behavior as the default option on clicking the icon of your focused application would be a feature request. You currently cannot configure Ubuntu Dock (and Dash to Dock) like this.

Such behavior might actually be considered to be inconsistent. After all, a click on an icon of a not focuses application currently raises all windows (as opposed to how Unity launcher works), so consistently, a single click should also hide all windows.

Enabling the minimize on click and Shift-click behaviour

The quickest and safest way is to change the setting usinggsettings terminal commands:

For click:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize'

For Shift-click:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock shift-click-action 'minimize'

Alternatively, you can use dconf-editor (not installed by default), and navigate to that key to change the settings.

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